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HighWire Press, Stanford University’s provider of hosting and web publishing platforms to scholarly publishers, has partnered with TEMIS, a leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment enterprise solutions. Under the strategic technology and business partnership, HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment, and linking to its customers.

“Stanford’s HighWire leads the industry in discoverability, leveraging its long relationship with Google,” said HighWire’s founding director, John Sack. “This new partnership allows us to increase discoverability inside the platform with richer metadata and outside the platform by connecting to the semantic web. The broad discipline coverage and the complete suite of customization tools offered by Luxid give HighWire’s publishers the opportunity to access the full scope of the industry’s most advanced semantic toolset. Also, while Luxid can effectively tag content using taxonomies, it also performs advanced semantic analysis to identify the new discoveries happening on the cutting edge of research, those that our publishers value the most.”

Managing director, Tom Rump, continued, “Luxid marries well with our new tools for rapid product presentation and content aggregation. They’ll enable publishers using HighWire’s open platform to quickly develop new products and deliver them to market, whether on the web or mobile. It allows us to advance the intellectual and commercial interests of scholarly publishers, by having content reach its full potential and its full audience.”

“HighWire’s open and scalable platform is perfectly poised to fully leverage our semantic content enrichment solution,” said TEMIS’s CEO, Eric Brégand. “The market-leading Luxid Content Enrichment Platform provides significantly deeper insights into content than taxonomy-only solutions can. By combining it with HighWire’s ePublishing solution, we are extending to the larger STM publishing community the full power of semantics and the highest standards of user experience.”